EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published in the Montreal Gazette on April 1, 2007:
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By Dave Stubbs
MONTREAL – They were at Gordie Howe’s Bell Centre table on Thursday night from the lobster martini until well past le temple au chocolat, a queue that stretched for three hours and at least a few thousand calories.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published in the Montreal Gazette on March 26, 2012, on the occasion of what would be Gordie Howe's last trip to Montreal:
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By Dave Stubbs
MONTREAL -- The autograph of Detroit Red Wings icon Gordie Howe -- Gordon, by his longhand -- is one of the most familiar and cherished in old-time hockey, in a dead heat with those of Montreal Canadiens' Jean Béliveau and the late Maurice Richard, fellow Hall of Famers.

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